Workers held hostage by Russian forces at the Chernobyl power plant have been blaring the Ukrainian national anthem daily, The Wall Street Journal reported. The exhausted and poorly-fed workers at the ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT, Ukraine — Five technicians secured by wires worked near the curved top of an arched steel structure that loomed the equivalent of 40 stories high, trying to extinguish the ...

KIEV, Ukraine — As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of the men who were sent to the site in the ...

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Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the reactor explosion at the Ukrainian power station 15 years ago. The elevated risk of thyroid cancer appears to continue throughout life Dr ...